Neural codes for perceptual discrimination of acoustic flutter in the primate auditory cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 9471-9476

  Lemus, Luis ^a   Hernández, Adrián ^a   Romo, Ranulfo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Decision making; Monkeys; Neurophysiology; Psychophysics; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 67249151608     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904066106     Document Type: Article

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